Let's WIN This Thing In Virginia

Early voting in Virginia is in full swing and Election Day is a week from Tuesday— ten days from now. ABC News just reminded folks that these elections for Virginia’s legislature may be the most important races of 2023. In the last set of elections, the Republicans won the governorship and the House of Delegates. They mean to hold onto their 52-48 House majority and win the state Senate, which is all that’s standing in the way of the GOP banning abortion and putting a right-wing set of policies into action. The Democrats have a 22-18 majority in the Senate. Polling shows an even split between the two parties.

Presented as an axiom, ABC insists that “Low turnout is a given, but who shows up will matter.” One of the races Blue America is involved with— Jessica Anderson’s attempt to dislodge conservative Republican Amanda Batten— has the highest early voting in the state. Jessica’s hard on-the-ground work is paying off in a district that has tilted slightly red. These legislative elections usually have low turnout which means that “a surge in Democratic or Republican turnout could have an outsized impact on the results.” That’s what Jessica has been working on since the summer— and she’s not stopping.

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